This collection is comprised of theses and dissertations completed at the University of New Orleans from 2002 to the present.
Some documents from this time period that have not been digitized as well as older dissertations and theses can be located in the UNO Library online catalog: http://library.uno.edu/
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Numerical Modeling of Lifting Flows in the Presence of a Free Surface, Leonardo R. Carmona Vasquez
Death by Design: Giving Life to Mark Twain’s Posthumous Success, Is He Dead?, Mignon Charvet
Application of Web Mashup Technology to Oyster Information Services, Christian Chuindja Ngniah
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Hazards, Environmental and Health Risks as the Latent Products of Late Modernity, Bryan R. Clarey
Best Laid Plans and Other Betrayals, Kimberly Clouse
The Making of an American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans and the Road to Central America, Kathryn K. Conley
The Lottery of Miracles, Amelia A. Cook
The Snow Globe, Sara Crawford
Blood in the Grass, James Trent Davis
Localization and Mutational Analysis of the Nuclear and Aggregation-Prone Ime4 Protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Patricia M. Dehon
Me, Myself, & Identity Online: Identity Salience on Facebook vs Non-Virtual Identity, Nathalie N. Delise
An Exploration of Counseling Practicum Students' Experiences in Department-Based and Community-Based Settings, Corrie DeLorge Minges
You're Among Friends, Denise Dirks
Comparing Newly Built Wetlands in the Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, Lindsay L. Dunaj
Grandpa Bandit, Jasmine D. Dunn
Lost in Space No Longer: The Visionary Union of 'The Wire', Brett Dupré
Are You Still Listening?, Alden Eagle
Working Towards the Sustainability of New Orleans’ African American Indigenous Cultural Traditions, Ethan K. Ellestad
Correlation of Shear Strength Between Longitudial and Transverse Specimens, Erasto A. Fernandez
Rendezvous: Stories and a Novella, Heath Fisher
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Rigid Analogues of Methamphetamines, Andrea N. Forsyth
From Pupusas to Chimichangas: Exploring the Ways in which Food Contributes to the Creation of a Pan-Latino Identity, Sarah B. Fouts
Teachers' Perceptions of Leadership in Young Children, Deborah Lee Fox
Diary of a Gay Bride, Kelly M. Frankenberg
Calculation of a Synthetic Gather using the Aki-Richards Approximation to the Zoeppritz Equations, Graham Ganssle
Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of Ara h 3, a Major Peanut Allergen, Cathryn E. Garvey
Phylogenetic Relationships and Character Evolution of the Neotropical Butterfly Genus Hamadryas (Nymphalidae: Biblidinae), Ivonne J. Garzon
Beneath Cuoi's Tree, Zachary J. George Sir
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar Signal Processing for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating Shallow Water, Patricia E. Giardina
Improved operational limits for offshore pipelay vessels, Daniel Rey Givan
Ballers, Oscar K. Gorney
Capshaw Ravens, Jennifer D. Grant
Risk, Vulnerability, and Hazards: The Industrial Canal and the Lower Ninth Ward, Jerry V. Graves Jr.
Happy Valley, Robert D. Gray
Defining “Third Force” Activity: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Eugene de Kock, John Grimes
Everyday Rituals, Chen Gu
Birds in Residential Metropolitan New Orleans Neighborhoods and Their Relationships to the Batture and Yard Vegetation, Ruth A. Guymon
Odor Monitoring at Wastewater Treatment Plants, Natasha Halageri
The Food Court in the Magic Kingdom: Globalization, Cuisine and Attitudes in Saudi Arabia, Klaus Heyer
International Financial Markets, Wei Hua
Water-Soluble Deep-Cavity Cavitands: Synthesis, Molecular Recognition, and Interactions with Phospholipid Membranes, Sarah E. Ioup
Lost in the Fire, Nicholas Isom
“All This Was My Life”: Constructing Textual Self-Identity in Diaries, Christie M. Jeansonne
Breathing Through the Night, Amber L. Jensen
Yoshimura's Ghost: Essays on Rural Japan, Jen Cullerton Johnson
Software for Estimation of Human Transcriptome Isoform Expression Using RNA-Seq Data, Kristen Johnson
Racial Reproductive Control Logics and the Reproductive Justice Movement, Nicole Jolly
How Are American Cities Planning for Climate Change? An Evaluation of Climate Action Planning in Chicago, IL and Portland, OR, Nicolette Jones
Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Ambata K. Kazi-Nance
The Spirit of the Spitfire: Creating the Role of Nancy Shedman in Romulus Linney's "Holy Ghosts", Caleigh M. Keith
Nothing Remains Still, Thomas J. Kiczula Jr.
A Comparison of Profiles and Expenditures between Volunteer and Leisure Tourists for the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area, Ksenia Kirillova
Geomorphologic evolution of a rapidly deteriorating barrier island system with multiple sediment sources: Eastern Isles Dernieres, Louisiana, 1887 to 2006, Benjamin T. Kirkland
Ugly Love, Kevin Kish
We are the 'Who Dat' Nation: city identity, narratives of renewal, and football fandom in New Orleans public realm, Casey Knoettgen
The Relationship between Legal and Extra-legal Factors: How Judges Come to Make their Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases, Ioulia Koublitskaia
Statehouse Mosaics and the American Electorate: How State Legislatures Affect Political Participation, Robynn Kuhlmann
Factors that Shape Environmental Perceptions: the Role of Health and Place, Elizabeth Langlois
Positive and Negative Parenting Strategies, Parental Psychopathology, and Relational Aggression in Youth, Genevieve E. Lapre and Monica A. Marsee
The Damage Done and Other Stories, Jamie Larson
Catastrophes and the Role of Social Networks in Recovery: A Case Study of St. Bernard Parish, LA, Residents After Hurricane Katrina, Carrie E. Lasley
Casa Samba: Identity, Authenticity, and Tourism in New Orleans, Lauren Lastrapes
Dantalion, David R. LeBlanc
Theoretical Approaches to the Characterization of Water, Aqueous Interfaces, and Improved Sampling of Protein Conformational Changes, Alexis J. Lee
Characterization of Magnetic Nanostructured Materials by First Order Reversal Curve Method, Denny R. Lenormand
Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture, Maria Levitsky
An Investigation of the Combined Assessments Used as Entrance Criteria for a Gifted English Middle School Program, Colleen D. Lindsey Ph.D.
Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED completers in entry-level college courses, Donalyn L. Lott
A Software Framework for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Adam Loup
Computational Scheme Guided Design of a Hybrid Mild Gasifier, You Lu
When Bird and Fish Fall in Love, Matthew C. Mackey
“Man’s Country. Out Where the West Begins”: Women, the American Dream, and the West in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Coleen Maidlow
Two Essays in Financial Economics, Jatin Ravikant Malhotra
Codemakers, Dawn Manning
Efficacy of Self-Care and Traditional Mental Health Counseling in Treating Vicarious Traumatization Among Counselors of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Mary Alice Many
The Weight of Water and Other Stories, Lindsay Maples
Employment Decentralization and Bus Rapid Transit in an Edge City Corridor: Veterans Boulevard in Greater New Orleans, Taylor A. Marcantel
Gaining Relevance in the Face of Obsolescence: The USS Texas – a Battleship in the Second World War, Kali Martin
Pigments of Imagination: An Actor's Journey of Creating the Character of Jack Lawson from David Mamet's Race, Paxton H. McCaghren
Rooftop Cities, Tammi L. McCune
Anger Management: Creating the role of Coleman Shedman in Romulus Linney's 'Holy Ghosts', Patrick J. McKinnie
Two Essays in Islamic Finance and Investment, Hesham J. Merdad
“Respectably Dull”: Striptease, Tourism and Reform in Postwar New Orleans, Lauren E. Milner
To Ride On, Coleen R. Muir
They Took My Bedroom: A Case Study of Eminent Domain in New Orleans, Jared E. Munster
Artifacts, Lacar E. Musgrove
Through Other I's: Las Otras, Brenda Nettles Riojas
Momentum, Nonlinear Price Discovery and Asymmetric Spillover: Sovereign Credit Risk and Equity Markets of Emerging Countries and, Geoffrey M. Ngene
Electronic Transport in Thermoelectric Bismuth Telluride, Westly Nolting
Comparative Phylogeography of Central African Duikers Using Non-invasive Sampling Methods, Stephan Ntie
Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition, Jade J. O'Dell
When is it Our Time?: An Event History Model of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights Policy Adoption, Megan E. Osterbur